[TriLUG] where to report scam phone call

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Wed Nov 2 17:25:38 EDT 2011


Hello, This Peggy.
Peggy?  Third time this week.  I want to talk a supervisor.
Supervisor genius!  I transfer.

William Sutton

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Justis Peters wrote:
>
>> Today, I received a phone call that I believe was a scam. The caller 
>> claimed to be from "Windows Support" and said that my computer had been 
>> reporting that it was infected via "internet protocol".
>
> I got this on monday. They must be doing Durham.
>
> What surprised me was that the caller had an Indian accent. I thought all the 
> scams were by Americans or Russians. Maybe the Russians have outsourced the 
> calling.
>
> I'm looking for a job, so I get phone calls from people with Indian accents, 
> who are clueless about computers. Instead of having names like Rajav, they're 
> Alex and Rebecca. When I get the follow up e-mail it's from Rebecca Wilson. 
> Gimme a break; you think I'm going to following up on a job being offered by 
> people who have thrown away their credibility?
>
>> I egged him on
>
> I just hung up. I regretted later that I didn't string him along for a while.
>
> I almost got taken in by the "I'm in London and got mugged and lost my credit 
> cards, plane tickets and passport. I need to pay my hotel bill" scam. The 
> mail was from someone I know on a local (non-computer) mailing list. I 
> thought I'd wait to hear something from people on the list who were his 
> friends. He does travel to London, but he'd been in town all along. His gmail 
> account had been cracked. He never e-mailed any of us to tell us he was OK. I 
> just read the other day that this is a well known scam and so phoned up 
> someone on the mailing list to find that the fellow had been in town all 
> along.
>
> Never trust suspicious looking e-mail from people who are computer 
> illiterate.
>
> Joe
>
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